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The Best Resources For Finding And Creating Virtual Field Trips

Virtual field trips are what the name implies — going on a field trip without actually leaving school grounds. Nothing really beats going out on a real trip for creating zillions of learning opportunities, but if money is tight and/or you don’t expect to be taking your class on an international adventure anytime soon, a virtual trip might just have to do.

These kind of trips come in four “sizes” — ones that you schedule in advance and have live interaction with someone on the other end; one that is pre-recorded and can be accessed at anytime; one that you create on your own; or one that students create after experiencing one as a model.

Most, though not all, of the sites listed on “This Best… list” offer more than one of these options.

e Field Trips looks like it has a number of free virtual trips that you have sign-up to “attend.”

Project Explorer offers in-depth multimedia virtual field trips to Jordan, South Africa, Shakespeare’s England, and — later this year — Mexico. Different versions of each are offered to different grade levels. No registration is necessary — just go to the site and begin.

The Google Art Project puts some of the most important art museums, and their collections, online with amazing features. I’ve embedded a very short video from the site that shows what it can do — I can’t do justice to it just with words.

My Second Book On Student Motivation!

My Second Book On Teaching ELLs

My book, "The ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready-to-Use Strategies, Tools, and Activities for Teaching English Language Learners of All Levels," (co-authored by Katie Hull Sypnieski) was published in the Summer of 2012